Died in jail or a lockup
D. W. Pressel
D. W. Pressel, a man of about sixty-five, was held without bail in the county jail at Mayersville, Mississippi, to await a grand jury. According to a Vicksburg newspaper dispatch, a crowd of about 500 battered down the jail door on August 10, 1883, while a special posse guarded him, took him from his cell, and hanged him from an oak about half a mile away. The account says he pleaded for his life, and the paper described him as one of the most influential citizens of his area and brother-in-law of Judge Jefford.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Vicksburg Special (newspaper dispatch) (reporters).